SUNY Downstate Medical Center - Iatros Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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LICHONIAN Eight The outstanding change which has taken place during this period is the definite separation of the college and the hospital which has allowed an unat- tached college administration to devote itself entirely to the interests of the educational problem. Next in line is the construction of the Polak labratory, a complete unit which was sorely needed. The completion of the L. I. C. H. building added considerably to the clinical material available. One of the most important changes is the affiliation with the County Hospital which places 500 additional beds at our disposal for clinical teaching. The Long Island College of Medicine has, in twenty years, emerged from a place in which to listen to didactic lectures on medicine, with hardly any oppor- tunity for contact with practical applications, to an institution in which every student has an opportunity to not only visualize but to take a personal part in the examination, diagnosis and treatment of all phases of medicine and surgery. While not a graduate of the Long Island College of Medicine, I am proud to have been associated with it for so many years. I have seen about 3500 stu- dents come and go. Among these have been many who have reached distinc- tion and, I am sure, but few who have not added to its prestige and to the public welfare. To those who have reached the zenith of their power and must lay down the active participation of administration I am sure the student body may look for encouragement, guidance and cooperation. The future belongs to the younger handsg I am sure you can safely trust them. What is most needed is the loyal and active cooperation of the alumni body. Through this medium it is possible to secure funds for still greater expansion of our educational facilities for the use of those to come. No graduate need be ashamed of his Alma Mater. There is no institution in the world that during the same period can boast of producing better doctors and better men. CHARLES WALDO STICKLE, M.D.

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IQ PROFESSOR AND FRIEND 5 5 HAVE LIVED wth three generations in my associations with the Long Island College Hos- pital and the Long Island College of Medicine, with the pioneers of the Nineteenth Century- the history makers, with the succeeding generation who accepted these theories, correlated and put them into practice in teaching and clinical application and with the oncoming group who will still further classify, clarify and extend these teachings by research and clinical investigation and open new fields of medicine. The rather slipshod general attitude of forty years ago has given way to teaching methods for the under- graduate body which insure, at the completion of the four year course, a far better fundamental understand- ing than could possibly be acquired from years of general practice. Medicine during this period has without doubt Houn- dered considerably and is still under scrutiny but, in my opinion, it is gradually finding itself.

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OF 1937 CHARLES WALDO STICKLE I-IARLES WALDO STICKLE was born 1n Genesee County 1n 1867 and was educated 1n the common schools of Batavra N Y After complet1ng h1s course ln the Batav1a CN Y D Hrgh School he came to New York and entered on the study of medlcrne at New York Un1vers1ty recervrng h1s M D degree 1n 1893 After graduatron he rnterned 1n the Chambers Street and Wards Island Hosp1tals for a year and then entered practrce He practrced general medrcrne rn Caledonla N Y from 1894 and 1897 and then decrded to move to Brooklyn Here he pract1ced for three years and rn 1904 havxng reached the dec1s1on to devote h1mself to the drseases of the ear nose and throat he went abroad to do Post Graduate work In 1904 and 1905 he studred laryngology otology and rhmology rn the great cl1n1cs of Berl1n and the Un1vers1ty of Wrttenberg Returnmg to Brooklyn rn 1906 he embarked on the pracuce of h1s specralty and became assocrated w1th the College and the Hospntal Dr Suckle has been a man of w1de hosprtal aiiilratlons At Long Island College Hosp1tal h1s assocratron began 1n 1906 as an Assrstant Attendmg 1n Otology In 1909 he was advanced to the posxtlon of Assocrate Attendrng and 1n 1916 became an Attendmg Surgeon CAuralD In 1920 when the departments of otology and larvngology were comblned Dr Stlckle was made Attendrng Oro laryngologxst a post he has held ever since At the Jewlsh Hospxtal Dr Strckle was an Attend1ng Otologxst from 1906 to 1925 and s1nce 1925 has been Con sultlng Otologlst At the M6fh0d1SI Eprscopal I-Iospltal he was Attendrng Otologrst from 1910 to 1920 and slnce 1920 has been the Consultmg Otologrst For rnany years he has been Consulting Otologlst to the Coney Island Hosprtal Hrs r1se 1n the affaxrs of the College has paralleled h1s hosprtal career When he jorned the staff rn 1906 he was made an Assrstant 1n Otology In 1910 h1s status was ralsed to the post of Adjunct Professor of Otology In 1916 he became a member of the Faculty as Pro fessor of Otology and rn 1920 he was made head of the combrned otologrcal and laryngologrcal departments as Professor of Otolaryngology In 1950 when the College was rechartered he was selected to assrst 1n the furthermg of 1tS new alms and polrcres and made Chalrman of the Board of Admrssrons From th1s post he has assumed a large part of the responsrbrlrty for the new type of student who has entered Long Island and a goodly share of the credrt for the rap1d advance our school has made rn the past twenty years must be grven to htm Now hav1ng reached the retlrement age he becomes Professor Emerltus and takes h1s place among the zmmortals of Long Island N me , . . , . . . . , . ., ' 1 1 7 1 ' 1 1 r c .r . . . . . . . , 1 , 1 ' ' ' 1 ' 1 . c c . - . , 7 1 1 - F 1 - 1 1 fr